Correspondence: Antonio M Esquinas Intensive Care Unit, Hospital Morales Meseguer, Avenida Marques Velez s/n, Murcia, 30008, Spain Email [email protected] Dear editor We read with great interest the original work by Murphy et al analyzing the effects of two treatment strategies for delivery of noninvasive mechanical ventilation in hypercapnic patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary dis...

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Faculty and delegates of the @ERStalk course on basic concepts in NIV describe their experiences http://ow.ly/zUPn30b7jLb.

Introduction ECCO2R (extracorporeal dioxide carbon removal) is an extracorporeal decarboxylation technology described in 1978. Physiological studies showed that 50% of produced CO2 were eliminated. Potential indications are: ultra-protective mechanical ventilation (MV) for acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and hypercapnic patients at risk of failure of noninvasive ventilation (NIV). Be...

Respiratory infections are the most frequent nosocomial infections after those urinaries and surgicals. We analysed respiratory infection incidences in patients treated with different kinds of respiratory assistance (non-invasive ventilation and invasive mechanical ventilation trough tracheostomy), studying 640 patients recovering in the intensive area of respiratory disease from 2010 to 2013. ...

Methods Prospective, multidisciplinary, observational study in a 24-bed MICU. Inclusion criteria: all pts treated with NIV for more than 4H/day. Exclusion criteria: pts receiving parenteral or enteral nutrition in the management of underlying diseases or comorbidities. Data collected include demographics, pts medical characteristics, NIV indication & duration of NIV sessions, complications deve...

This prospective observational study on 36 neonates aimed to estimate the correlation between the new Saturation Oxygen distending Pressure Index (SOPI) and Oxygenation index. SOPI had high correlation (r=0.94) with oxygenation index. SOPI of <2, 2, and 3.7 represented mild, moderate and severe pulmonary disease, respectively with high sensitivity and specificity.

Abbreviations: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, COPD; chronic hypercapnic respiratory failure, CHRF; noninvasive ventilation, NIV; inspiratory positive airway pressure, IPAP; breathing frequencies, BF; health-related quality of life, HRQoL; partial arterial carbon dioxide pressure, PACO2 Citation: Duiverman ML, Wijkstra PJ. Editorial. Long-term noninvasive ventilation in COPD: is high-int...

A combination of helium and oxygen (heliox) can facilitate gas exchange and limit peak inspiratory pressures through reduced resistance to gas flow and decreased turbulent flow. The combination of these gases has been used for a variety of upper and lower airway conditions, including patients who were spontaneously breathing, receiving noninvasive ventilation, as well as during mechanical venti...